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  • Paul Neilson created a page Upgrade Elgg from 1.8.19 to 1.12.9 in the group General Discussion
    Just looking to see if it's possible to upgrade Elgg from 1.8.19 straight to 1.12.9? or is this too much of a quantum leap? What issues would probably happen?
    • No. Not possible. Upgrade one minor release at a time, i.e. 1.8.19 to latest 1.9, then to latest 1.10 etc.

      From 1.10 to 1.12 it "might" work but I don't recommend it just to be on the safe side. If you leap over a minor release the upgrade might get stuck and in the worst case leaves your database in a broken state.

  • Paul Neilson replied on the discussion topic Elgg 1.8.19 to Elgg 1.12.9
    I'll take a look thanks, does anyone know of a plugin that can move all the data from an old Elgg to a new one? view reply
  • Paul Neilson added a new discussion topic Elgg 1.8.19 to Elgg 1.12.9 in the group Elgg Technical Support
    I would like to move all the data from an installation on Elgg 1.8.19 to Elgg 1.12.9 as I am fearful that it stops working; can anyone advise please.  I will pay someone to do if required.
    • I'll take a look thanks, does anyone know of a plugin that can move all the data from an old Elgg to a new one?

    • There's a plugin that seems to be able to clone an Elgg installation: https://elgg.org/plugins/2402241. But I've not tried that myself and I don't know what exactly it does. There are some other plugins but partly they only backup the database and partly they are already quite old (i.e. possibly not working anymore on recent versions of Elgg).

      But it shouldn't be necessary to use such a plugin in your case. If you only want to update your site (but not move the site to another server or change the location on the server), you only need to follow the instructions given in the link Juho posted. You would update your existing installation and not making a new installation.

      If you want to move your site to another location, you can follow the instructions given at http://learn.elgg.org/en/2.0/admin/duplicate-installation.html. But this will only move the site and not change the version of Elgg. It would be a separate task to update to a newer Elgg version (as described in the other link). You could either update your site before or after the move. Regardless if moving your site or only updating it, you should make a full backup (install directory with all subdirectories, database and the whole data directory) to be able to restore the site if the update goes wrong or if something fails to work out right on the move. Then you can just try it again.

      Any plugin (like the one I linked above) is quite likely requiring the same version of Elgg to be used on the old and new location. Therefore, you would have to update Elgg to a newer release in any way anyway. So, I would suggest to just try it out. You could make a "test run" for example by setting up a Elgg test installation on your own computer and just try out how the update progress works out. This way you can't damage anything.

      When upgrading from Elgg 1.8 to 1.12 you need to do it in several steps: from 1.8.10 to the latest 1.9.X, then to the latest 1.10.X, latest 1.11.X and only then to the latest 1.12.X version of Elgg. You should also make sure that for any 3rd party plugin you use compatible releases for the new Elgg versions are available (plugins for Elgg 1.9 should almost all work also on Elgg 1.10 - 1.12 and plugins for Elgg 1.10/1.11 will surely work on Elgg 1.12). For testing plugin compatibility it's also useful to try it first on a test installation.

  • Paul Neilson replied on the discussion topic Embed PDF
    I have purchased SW Social Docs for Elgg 1.8 and cannot get it to work in the way I would like, help anyone? view reply
  • Paul Neilson replied on the discussion topic Embed PDF
    When I add widgets onto the group front-end, I have HTML, discussions, etc. Options but no options appear to display any files let alone an embedded PDF; hence I need a widget/plugin to allow this.  Can you explain how I recreate what... view reply
  • Paul Neilson added a new discussion topic Embed PDF in the group Elgg Technical Support
    Is it possible to embed a PDF file into the front-end of a Group, either using a widget or plug-in? Tried using HTML but nothing works!   TIA
    • When I add widgets onto the group front-end, I have HTML, discussions, etc. Options but no options appear to display any files let alone an embedded PDF; hence I need a widget/plugin to allow this.  Can you explain how I recreate what you're suggesting?

       

    • I have purchased SW Social Docs for Elgg 1.8 and cannot get it to work in the way I would like, help anyone?

    • Can you explain what problem you're trying to solve? Displaying PDFs isn't well supported because it's almost never a good user experience on the web... Maybe if you give us some background info we can suggest an easier alternative.

  • Paul Neilson added a new discussion topic Best Usage Plugin in the group Plugin Development
    What is the best plugin for seeing members usage within a Group collectively as well as individually? TIA Paulo